Suicide. And the investor immortalizing The Big Short for predicting the Housing Bubble would burst is back at it again. Why hes betting 1. 6 billion that the stock market will crash. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. Nbcs dana griffin is live from maui. Some hawaiian residents are suing the Utility Company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. Dana, what can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fire after it was contained. Nbc news has not independently verified those videos yet. Were hearing reports from several people including one guy who says that fire started behind his home, and now there are concerns that that may have been sparked by hawaiian electrics power lines. That is the Company Named in these three lawsuits. They claim that the company should have deenergized those power lines with the fire threat due to those high winds. That is a practice we usually see in california, certain Power Companies will notify residents they are shutting down the power so that in the event that equipment fails or power lines go down, it prevents the likelihood of a fire starting. So thats part of the investigation. Right now, crews, though, however are still focused at the decimated site where they are still sifting through the rubble, trying to find countless others. We know at least eight people we have been able to identify. We are still working to learn the names of other people. They are still trying to identify those people through dna samples, chris. Dana griffin, thank you for that update. Now to the very fast Schang Change Of Venue moves in the Georgia Election interference case. Whats the latest for mark meadows . Mark meadows is first out of the gate here. He has a nonfrivolous contention, arguing that the conduct at issue here was part of his job, and theres a provision of the law which allows people, federal officials who are charged in a state court in connection with their work that they say is falling under their federal job to move that to Federal Court. So what he said here is the conduct giving rise to the challenges in indictment occurred during his tenure and as part of his service as Chief Of Staff. Federal law provides for prompt removal of criminal prosecution commenced in a state court, directed to a federal official in an official or individual capacity for or relating to any act under color of his office. Essentially what this is going to boil down to is whether what mark meadows was doing on Donald Trumps behalf was part of his job as Chief Of Staff. And i think theres going to be arguments on both sides there in terms of whether or not this fell within the confines of his job or what the prosecutors are likely to argue is that this fell outside the bounds of what his job as white house Chief Of Staff actually was about, and this was more work on behalf of Donald Trumps interest and behalf of Donald Trumps campaign, rather than some sort of National Interest of the United States. He wasnt working for the United States there. He was trying to get donald trump to have a second term in office, chris. Ryan reilly, thank you for that. Now to a Skyrocketing Number of children going to the e. R. For Mental Health related issues. Nbcs Erica Edwards has been following this for us. I know you have been hearing from some desperate doctors, erica. What exactly is going on . Reporter yeah, Emergency Room Doctors say they are completely overwhelmed with the number of children and teenagers going into the Emergency Departments with Mental Health crises and Behavioral Health concerns. And just this morning, three major influential medical groups got together to release a joint statement demanding more resources as the American Academy of pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Emergency Nurses Association all saying that what theyre doing is simply unsustainable. Right now, about a half million kids every year go to the e. R. With some kind of Mental Health crisis, and that number has been increasing for at least a decade. For example, i talked with one doctor at rady Childrens Hospital in san diego yesterday. She said a few years ago, they had maybe 30 such kids coming in a month. Now it is 30 every single day, and what happens often times is that theres really no beds to transfer these kids out of the e. R. Into more of a longer term residential facility where they can get that longer term specialized care that they need, and now these groups are coming together and saying, hey, if were going to take care of all of these kids, we need more pediatric help help inside the e. D. And also in the community, Doctors Offices to try to sort of help catch these cases before they escalate to where they need emergency care. Whats more, they are begging for more information, more training to help guide them when theyre treating specific groups at risk, lgbtq youth, and kids who have, you know, prior violence, abuse. You talked about the kids coming in, talking about suicide. Theyre coming in as young as 5 and 6 years old, talking about these major issues. That is unbelievable. 30 a month to 30 a day. Important reporting, Erica Edwards, thank you. Wall street meantime, buzzing about a jaw dropping new bet by the investor who famously predicted the 2008 collapse of the housing market. Cnbcs dom chu joins us for cnbc on msnbc. His name is michael bury, he got famous for The Big Short. Hes at it again. What can you tell us . Its not exactly a vote of confidence on where the stock market is headed but its not entirely clear just how negative he is on the future direction f the markets. By the way, that ultimately led to the biggest financial crisis in america back in 08 and 09, since the great depression, but also because of the vast amount of money he made betting on that downturn. When a person like that, who called the last major financial meltdown is calling for another one, folks pay attention. This is according to regulatory filings. They have to be made by americas biggest investors. Burry bought Financial Instruments that profit, make money, if the s p 500 and nasdaq 100 fall in value. Now, its unclear what those socall put options are valued at currently or what he paid for them in the first place, but the notional value of the combined negative bets covers a jaw dropping 1. 6 billion in market exposure. Now, what he actually paid for that exposure could be considerably less than that. Whats interesting, though, about this beyond just that eye grabbing Headline Number that this particular disclosure talks about the bet, and it was placed and it was at the end of june. It is not clear whether that bet is still ongoing or whether he closed it out already at a profit or a potential loss. This also is a bet that doesnt necessarily need the market, chris, to Cross Precipitously for it to make money. It gives the trader the option to sell it at some time down the line, even with a modest pull back in markets. 1. 6 billion bet, so to speak is catching numbers but its unclear whether or not hes actually going to wait for a massive drop in the stock market to profit fully, chris. But wall street and a lot of the rest of us will be watching. Dom chu, thank you so much for that. Millions of americans standing by donald trump, some, even as they face major legal consequences themselves. Up next, the insights from the author who wrote a book about Rudy Giuliani and a scathing oped in todays New York Times. Thats in 60 seconds. Mes. Thsat in 60 seconds fan 1 there ya go thats what im talkin about josh allen is this your plan to watch the game today . hero fan uh, yea. I have to watch my neighbors Nfl Sunday Ticket. josh allen its not your best plan. But you know what is . Myplan from verizon. 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A prime example, trumps former attorney and friend of nearly 40 years, Rudy Giuliani, a man who himself is now facing 13 charges for pushing trumps lies about the election. Whats more, were now learning he wasnt even paid for it. His former attorney told cnbc that giuliani had a Handshake Deal with trump to be paid 20,000 a day, but never saw a dime. And yet, as recently as yesterday, giuliani said he has no regrets supporting trump, despite the fact that his reputation, first as a Ground Breaking u. S. Attorney, and then as americas mayor, post 9 11, has been overshadowed by bizarre public appearances and the Conspiracy Theories hes pushed on trumps behalf. Thats from the outside looking in. But giuliani insists hes no different than the crime busting prosecutor from the 1980s. Im the same Rudy Giuliani that went after the mafia. I havent changed one bit. The country has become fascist and communist, i havent. Im the same Rudy Giuliani, the same quest for justice, gosh almighty, if donald trump committed a crime, love him though i do, id put him in jail. I want to bring in andrew kurtsman, his latest book, giuliani, the rise and fall, and glen kirschner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. You wrote an Essay Arguing that this is not the man we saw in new york all of those decades ago. So when you hear the mayor say he has not changed, what goes through your mind . Look, i mean, Rudy Giuliani was considered kind of a paragon of integrity in the 1980s. I tell the story about an old Childhood Friend who came to visit giuliani with a framed picture of the two of them together when they were children. Giuliani took the picture out of the frame, took the picture, and gave the frame back, and he said i cant take that frame. He was just scrupulous about his ethics. That is not the giuliani were seeing today, the person whos tried to overturn the election, someone who pushed the fake elector scheme, someone who told falsehoods about the election workers passing usb drives, as though they were viles of cocaine. Theres something about giuliani that has kind of changed in a moral way. His morals have, as i wrote today in the times have kind of disappeared into a void. He has always kind of framed his comments, his positions in moral ways, just as he did in that sound clip you just played, but he talks about morality but tries to justify some deeply, deeply immoral acts. So people ask me all the time, im guessing they ask you too. What is is it about donald trump that keeps people in his orbit, keeps their loyalty, when theyre own reputations are at stake, and freedoms are at stake. What you wrote in your book, whats clear is that the two mens friendship survived when a hundred other trump relationships died away like so many marriages of convenience. Giuliani would never turn his back on trump, much to his detriment. Can you pinpoint a time when americas mayor, when the guy who prosecuted rico cases changed and was it about donald trump . Well, there are two pivots in Rudy Giulianis life, one was 9 11, when he became more popular than the pope, according to a poll at that time, and then the 2008 president ial race, when he entered as a front runner and ended it in humiliation with just one delegate, and it was at that moment in 2008 when things kind of crashed around him, when he lost his 9 11 halo, was left in kind of the political wilderness, there was donald trump, and donald trump literally took him in to maralago right after his failure in 2008, and kind of shielded giuliani when he was kind fell into a depression that i write about in my book, but also the two of them needed each other by 2016. Trump needed giuliani because he didnt have any political friends, and giuliani needed trump because no one was knocking at giulianis door anymore to endorse them. They each had a lot of reason to bond together. They like each other. They like each other a lot. They respect each other. Enough to go to jail . Well, it goes back to what i said about giuliani and morality. Everything in giulianis mind is about right and wrong. And thats one of the fascinating things about giuliani to me is that he preaches right and wrong, even when what he does is deeply immoral. And so i think that, you know, thats what drives him. Jay thom, i think if you asked anyone in the 80s and now, they would tell you, that Rudy Giuliani is expert on rico cases, and yet, he talked about the rico statute and fani williss decision to use it, i think this is yesterday or the day before, take a listen. This is a ridiculous application of the racketeering statute. Theres probably no one that knows it better than i do. Probably some that know it as well. I was the first one to use it in white collar cases but in major cases like the bosky case and milkin case, this is not meant for election disputes. I mean, this is ridiculous what shes doing. Also, i dont know if she realizes it because she seems like a pretty incompetent sloppy prosecutor. Jay thom, what do you make of that . Karma, chris. When mr. Giuliani started his career as a really very well known federal prosecutor i was starting my career as a state prosecutor, and we looked up to mr. Giuliani because he was using that rico statute to bust not only mafia bosses but also white collar criminals. Time has changed and now State Prosecutors are using the same rico statute, the state version of it to go after corrupt politicians, and this is what giuliani needs to look at what the Georgia Supreme Court has said, prosecuted the first corrupt politician in georgia using the rico statute and it was upheld by our Georgia Supreme Court. Now mr. Giuliani is facing the same statute that has been used before. So willis is not a sloppy prosecutor. In fact, the attorney who wrote that indictment john floyd is the nations Heading Expert on rico in this country. All right. So glenn, we know that Rudy Giuliani was named in this indictment more than 50 times, more than anyone except trump, is that the kind of person you would try to flip if you were prosecuting this case or is that the kind of person you want to say, he should be prosecuted . Yeah, you know, chris, there are times when even if a coconspirator or a defendant, we can now refer to giuliani as a defendant because he has been indicted in georgia, there are times when prosecutors would desperately like to acquire the information and the evidence they have against others, but there are some people that we cant clean up sufficiently, i mean that figuratively to put them before a jury and urge that jury to believe their testimony and use it to convict others. You know, the most important data point to me was when i sat giuliani sad for a Proffer Session in june, a Proffer Session is sort of the last step. Prosecutors will meet with a coconspirator, perhaps soon to be a defendant, and rye to see if that person is willing and capable of telling the complete truth, an accurate account of what they did, including their own misconduct, and about the crimes of others. And if they can tell the complete truth, then perhaps the next step is bringing them on board as a cooperating witness. But if they cant, if they lie, if they engage in misdirection and deception, if theyre evasive, then often what happens is we say thank you for coming in, and we move to